Karl holmqvist façade project

09.15 // Ongoing

Karl Holmqvist

“I always saw poetry as similar to architecture which is why this invitation to literally cover a building in writing has been so inspiring; if you start dismantling certain parts of either construction the whole thing might come down…”. – Karl Holmqvist

Inspired by the immediate environs of LAXART’s neighborhood, Karl Holmqvist’s new façade project is a concrete poem to the hyperlocal. This work is part of an ongoing series of façade murals, which have included works by Daniel Joseph Martinez, Barbara Kruger, and Barbara Stauffacher Solomon.